This collection of prayers from the early seventeenth century, edited by the poet Robert Hudson, travelled with me to Vietnam. For a second time,…
Preston Jones
Preston Jones grew up in San Bernardino, California, and served in the Navy from 1986 to 1990. He worked at psychiatric facilities in California while he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and went to Canada on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1995. He completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Ottawa in 1999. He taught at the California State University, Sonoma, from 1997 through the summer of 2000 and at The Cambridge School of Dallas through the spring of 2003. He now teaches history and Latin at John Brown University. Since 1996 he has published over 200 articles in numerous academic and general publications, including the Journal of Church and State, the Catholic Historical Review, Books & Culture, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, the National Post (Canada), Touchstone and, of course, Critique. He reads the Bible in French, Welsh, and Latin, and he runs one or two marathons a year. He's married to Anne, and they have two children, Eleri and Elliott.
Indivisible (David G. Evans, 2018)
Living with War: A Job-like wondering met with silence Making their way to Panama in late 1989 to overthrow the drug-running regime of Manuel…
Letter to My Students
Culture / Ordinary Life / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
Dear Students, I’ll tell you about two key moments in my life. They came close together. I think I was seventeen. I’m not sure…
What Do Students Need from Me?
What do my students need from me? Obviously, they need knowledge. If our civilization is to live, then each generation will need to know,…
The life of faith in an evolving world: a sketch
In the beginning God created everything necessary for natural life. In time, the stars, planets, minerals, trees and all earthly beings would spring from…
The Life of Faith in an Evolving World: A Sketch
In the beginning God created everything necessary for natural life. In time, the stars, planets, minerals, trees and all earthly beings would spring from…
The Sorrow and Hope of Homeschooling
Community / Family / Spirituality
I’ve been reading biographical sketches of Christian women who lived in the late Roman Empire. A theme the sketches have in common is rejection:…
With Godzilla in the City
Community / Faith / Ordinary Life / Spirituality
Driving through a section of Guatemala City for the five hundredth time, a strange tape played through my mind. Godzilla was trampling Tokyo, simultaneously…
The Cross and the Wide World
Faith / Ordinary Life / Spirituality
Christians relate to the Lord differently. The variety of Protestant denominations and the numerous subgroups within Roman Catholicism point to different theological accents and…
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt, 1963), An Ordinary Man (Paul Rusesabagina, 2006)
Ordinary Men I recently read two books about ordinary men. One of them, Paul Rusesabagina, played a key role in rescuing 1,200 Tutsis and…